But he also kept his sense of humor, some of it self-deprecating.
Vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.”
Look, Palin fans already love her, and self-deprecating humor makes you appear secure.
Unlike past presidents, who typically gave us self-deprecating jokes, Obama uses comedy as a weapon.
She ran the gamut with physical humor and dished out droll, self-deprecating one-liners.
But Slutever, with its rawness, honesty, and self-deprecating humor, was something different.
Throughout it all, Hilty remained relatively good-natured with the press, a proper balance of self-aware and self-deprecating.
He smirked in a self-deprecating way, and pulled his hat-brim down in front.
He looked from one to the other, with his melancholy and self-deprecating smile.
Then, there was no limit to the gentle, self-deprecating plausibility with which he alluded to himself.